Mammoth film review and trailer

IF you feel guilty about not spending enough time with your kids or spending too much money on meaningless goods or simply the size of your carbon footprint then Mammoth is only going to make you feel much worse.

PUBLISHED: 00:00, Fri, Nov 5, 2010
| UPDATED: 10:03, Fri, Nov 5, 2010

Lukas Moodysson's globe-trotting, finger-wagging melodrama feels like a meandering wallow in existential angst. In New York wealthy games deviser Leo (Gael García Bernal), his doctor wife Ellen (Michelle Williams) and their daughter Jackie (Sophie Nyweide) are the picture of a happy family. However all is not as it seems.

On a business trip to Bangkok Leo is given an expensive pen made from ivory reclaimed from a mammoth's tusks, a heavy-handed symbol of the way we are all heading towards extinction.

Mammoth looks sleek and is well-acted but the preachy tone is hard to bear.